The dive centre, surrounded by tropical jungle and vibrant reefs, is where you can learn to dive in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Downbelow uses the latest training methods and regularly serviced, quality diving equipment to conduct all levels of diver training, from Discover SCUBA through to IDC Staff Instructor.

For the aspiring professional SCUBA diver, diving internships are on offer and ranges in length from 1 to 6 months, enabling even non-divers to quickly progress from zero to fully qualified open water diving instructors, ready for employment anywhere in the world.
Under the leadership of resident PADI Course Director Richard Swann, Downbelow’s Go Pro Instructor Development team team-teaches, giving candidates the full advantage of their collective decades worth of experience.
For a one-stop shop that provides the best PADI SCUBA diving facilities and the widest range of PADI courses in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah; when you dive Sabah, DiveDownbelow.

Our next PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) starts on the 28th of August 2013 yet our JULY candidates are still here with Downbelow Managing Director and resident PADI Platinum Course Director Richard Swann who is conducting specialty instructor courses at our dive centre.

Our office received a special guest this week when Hannah Pragnell-Raasch from Project AWARE dropped by for a visit. Based in Project AWARE's head office in Sydney, Australia, Hannah is the Program & Outreach Coordinator.

The day before some 50+ kids from the local orphanage were to visit our Dive Centre last weekend, Richard decided to get some help from the pleasure divers by requesting them to pick up any broken or damaged corals that they find on their dives.

This is part of our Coral for Life program - where we explain and demonstrate how a broken and otherwise healthy coral can be given a new lease of life by gluing them on special blocks and then re-homing them to an artificial reef.

We realise that when you go diving everyday you might take the blue sea for granted and forget that we are directly responsible in taking care of the ocean.

So to mark this important day and also to remind ourselves to keep the ocean clean, we collected one piece of rubbish during our dives that day. We also took a look at ourselves and asked how we can personally reduce the trash that ends up in the ocean.

We hope everyone, divers and non-divers alike, realise that each of us has a part to play.

Every 5th of June is World Environment Day and being a working day, we celebrated the day in the office by switching off half of the lights to save energy.

All of us are proud to be pro-active and we are all aware of the importance in taking care of the environment. We have been practicing environment-friendly policies such as not using plastic bags and styrofoams, recycling papers and thinking twice before printing anything and even if we do, print multiple pages per sheet and use both sides.

Debbie Molesworth

Dive Downbelow's Blog

Along our Gaya Island shorelines, our island staff team with the help of a large adventure group of international school students visiting our Dive Centre, cleaned the beaches by collecting marine debris.